strategy includes the accelerated integration of artificial intelligence. artificial intelligence offers unparalleled speed and precision in cyberspace operations. making it a key enabler for anticipating and countering emerging threats. by expanding ai across our operations, we will strengthen our disturbance posture and maintain superiority in the cyber domain. true excellence nai requires a world-class workforce. through initiatives like cyber com 2.0, we will develop, pilot, implement new tools and opportunities to invest in our workforce. a world-class workforce requires world-class training, facilities, and capabilities to excel and thrive. with the support and assistance we received from the department and from congress, cyber com is well-positioned to achieve these results. our work is far from finished.

with your continued partnership, i'm confident we will succeed in defending our nation. cyber com is prepared to rise to the challenge, appeasing our adversaries, securing our interests, and protecting our future. thank you and i look forward to answering any questions you have. >> thank you. in the wake of the various persistent cyber threats originating from the people's republic of china over the last two years, it is my firm conclusion that the importance of the dual hat -- >> we will step away from this quickly to go live now to the white house where president trump is signing an executive order on shipbuilding. >> you all set? thank you very much. appreciate it. we just had a wonderful meeting

with the greatest racecar drivers in the world. some really spectacular people. one the indy 500 to the last four years i guess. roger penske is so incredible. the daytona winners, daytona 24 hour champions. great to see them. to see those cars. those cars are incredible. a lot of winning out there. they are having a good day in the stock market as you can see. all-time record day. hopefully it continues. i think it should. the country is stronger than it's ever been. somebody had to do that, take their medicine. had to go through the operation. that's what we've been through. a lot of presidents would not have done it. no president would have done it i think. it had to be done. i want to thank this team here and lots of others. scott and howard have been incredible.

for energy, there's nobody like this man. oh boy, you've done well. appreciate it. very much appreciated. if we could, we are signing a lot of executive orders. some ambassadors have been approved. we will start that process right now. we are honored to have reggie witmer from michigan. great state of michigan. she's really done an excellent job. very good person. we are working on the suffrage as you know, the airbase. we are trying to get the airbase open, keep it open. gretchen and matt hall are there. he's been fantastic as the speaker. i appreciate it. we won the state map. you helped me a lot. >> thank you mr. president. >> that's good. i think everybody knows. we are working on that very hard.

i think we will come home with a winner from michigan, ok? i just spoke with the secretary of defense. sometimes we call it the secretary of war. they changed it. when we became a little bit politically correct. i think we are in great shape. we are going to be in great shape. thank you so much. thank you very much. congratulations. great job. we will start with the first orders. i think we have one for a man named mike huckabee. does anyone know my copy -- no mike huckabee? great ambassador to israel. thrilled to have him. that i can tell you. >> the senate confirmed governor huckabee to be the next abbasid or to israel earlier today. that's his commission as ambassador. then we also have a transmittal letter to the president of israel, requesting that he accept governor huckabee's -- ambassador huckabee's credentials. >> he is going to be fantastic.

he's going to bring home the bacon. even though bacon isn't too big, as you know. i had to clear that up. [laughter] >> well said. >> ok. congratulations to mike huckabee. >> next, this is a big one. as you've consistently identified, restoring our maritime dominance as a nation is very important. from shipbuilding to having a merchant marine that's capable of supporting american military efforts up and down the line. restoring maritime dominance has been a priority of the administration. this executive order which was prepared primarily by our national scaredy council staff and national security advisor walls has a number of very significant policy steps, all

aimed at restoring american maritime dominance and ensuring that we have the ship building capability and ability to compete globally, militarily and in the civilian space as well. >> that could be a good one for michigan. we are going to be spending a lot of money on shipbuilding. we are way behind. we used to build a ship a day. now we don't do a ship year practically. we have the capacity to do it. ok. shipbuilding. that's a good one. ok. thank you. >> thank you sir. the next executive order relates to defense procurement. our latest process has been criticized by many folks on both sides of the aisle as being too slow to adapt to new and

changing technologies, not delivering the sorts of weapons systems that fighters need in order to compete on the battlefields of the future. with this executive order, we will be modernizing the argument structure that the department of defense uses to allow it to more quickly adapt to changing circumstances around the world. we will be launching a review of existing preterm and programs to ensure that we are getting value for the money to ensure we are getting the best possible systems in the field. >> which are currently horrible. i will tell you, they are horrible. the process is ridiculous, what they do. the highest price. not even good-looking equipment. i want to say hello to brooke. down 87%.

kristi noem who a few of you have heard of. she has done the most unbelievable job as somebody that's watching over our country at the border. with your whole staff, tremendous people. >> who would think that she is meant for the job. she is meant for it. i just saw you there both. thank you very much. we'll do it later, please. >> lastly in the defense space, one persistent issue that we have had. in terms of the issue of foreign defense sales , that we're unabe to provide weapons systems in n effective reliable way to key

allies of ours and a key driver of that is it the inconsistency in the process in which we approve military sales. this will direct the department he is departments around and agencies to we work the sales and provide revenue to american defense% and provide key military equipment to key ally and an effective way. >> okay. that is good. that is all very important. us that that budget is just about approved and it's a big budget and we want to spent the money properly with the best equipment in the word. we rebuilt the military in my first term and rebuilt it

perfectly. and somebody gave it away to after began afghanistan and we have to have fix it up a little bit and that is what we're going do. >> next up we have a series of executive order and memorandum all relating to deregulation. which has been a major priority of your administration. the first of these is an executive order. the biden administration l aunched a war on showers. they'd regulation that's killed the water pressure of showers and other water appliances. >> you can say it. >> what are the appliances? >> it's everything, sir. >> dish washers a and wash andd sinks. >> no water, you don't get water it's ridiculous. >> with this executive order we're going to reverse the regulations. if the americans want a low flow shower head they can buy one.

>> nobody wants. >> they should have the ability to get one. >> you buy a house and you pay a lot of money and you are not allowed to do anything more. they put restrictors out. and now they weld it in. you take a shower or whatever you do. you wash your handers and hande to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. and i have to stand under the shower 15 15 minutes until it s wet. it comes out drip, drip, drip and you end up washing your hand five times longer. we're going to open it up so people can live. and we're going to have congress approve it so it's memorialized. including little things like straws. the paper straws were melting and they weren't working well

and we went back to the plastic straws. we're going to get congress to memorialize everything we have done here. most of it is commons common sense. any time you see a new faucet you know it's going to be a long wash of the hands and so we're changing it. it's a big deal. i did it in the first administration and biden came in in the first week and he had no idea what he was doing and someone told him to do it. and the first week he put the restrictions on all of the balt bathroom utilities. even in areas that have so much water they don't know what to do with. i think we set a record, we're up to 500 amendments nobody has every done that. we're going to get them approved by congress so they are m emorialized. and we look fort to forward tog

that. congress is going to start working on it. as soon as we get the big beautiful deal done. the big beautiful deem is important. the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country, that is important. okay. go ahead. is that okay? >> a good shower. that was a ten. >> this is another executive order relating to deregulation, sir. there are a lot of regulation that's promote monopoly directory or prevent new m arketten market entrance. what this executive order is going to to do is direct the departments and agencies to work with the ftc and the attorney general and the department of

justice to ensure that the regulations don't function to anti-competitive barriers. it will be down to the benefit of consumers and americans opposed monday monopoly serv >> i said yesterday, he was a great student. what does that mean, they are letting people in that they couldn't add 2 and 2. i went to harr vartd and harva. people that got accepted to harr vartd and vartd harvard and how come they got september if septembered being a

being a being a a ccepted. thank you. >> thank you, sir. there are a large number of regulations on the books. these are regulations that are currently in effect that we believe blatently violate the law. . blight blatantly are illegal. it directs the head of your departments and agencies to follow the law and ceasen f orcing regulation that's are blatantly unlawful for against the constitution. >> that is a big deal. it's very important that we get these memorialized.

they important for the long h aul. right. >> this is the last of the deregulatory eo's for the day. this is the zero -based regulatory budgeting. the idea is over over people at looking at what is on the books and clearing them out as regulations become dated or he or i neffective:what this will require each of your departments and agencies to scrutinize the they have on the books and sunset those that no longer rer is serve longerrer is longerrer longer serve a purpose and they can't identify a reason for keeping them being a acquiescence act.

>> thank you, sir. sir, you have taken action against a number of law firms that have been one way or another been involved in the weaponnization of government and one of them is susman godfrey. and this is an executive order that takes measures against s usman godfrey. and scrutinizing parts of their practice as a law firm given their previous action activiti. >> we sign with many law firms the one that's ones that we the inappropriate. and they have all agreed to pay 100 -- let's see a million dollars -- they went for some pretty big numbers. we have a total. what was the total right now,

steve? , about would you say? >> getting close to 6 or 700 million. some are at 125 million. we're going to be close to a billion soon. >> one at 40 million. $40 million. millions of dollars an hour that they don't admit guilt. remember that. they don't admit guilt. we have another five to go five of them. and this one we're just starting a process with this one. >> yes, sir. >> because there were some bad things that happened with these law firms? >> and this one was very involved in in the alleged m isconduct. weren't they all involved in the alleged misconduct. they went from $40 million to $125 million and 340e69 of mosm are at $125 million.

all right. thank you. thank you, sir. the next presidential memorandum relates to miles taylor. and you recall he served in homeland security during your previous just station. in his administration. he wrote a book under the p seudoname anonymous. this is going to strip any active clearance he has in light of his past activities involving classified information. it's going to order the dpment department of justice to investigates his being a tiforts to active active activitie.

>> i didn't know who this guy was. he would be on cnn a lot. i had no idea. in this office you have a lot f young people i will see them for two minutes. and i assumed he was in the offers. but i . -- office. i barely remember him. he was somebody that went out and wrote a book and said all sorts of terrible things that were all lies and it was like he was this gentlemen or like that gentlemen i dealt with him all the time. i said who the hell is miles d ayor? taylor. and he went on cnn talking about the president and he wrote about all sorts of lies and bad t hings. i think it's like a traitor. he walks in the offerings and e

will be sitting here a lot of time i will be here and there are 20 people sit sitting here. i didn't know anything about h im. and, he wrote a book, anonymous and i always thought it was terrible. and now we have a changes to find out - - chance -- chance to find ou. and i think we have to do something about it. if that happens to other presidents it wouldn't be sustainable for other p residents. they seem to be able sustain, but if that happened to other presidents, it's just unfair. and if it was a democrat president i would say it's a terrible thing. a thing like that could happen. that is a terrible thing. it's time to find out whether somebody can do that. can they write a book about very confidential meetings because they were one of a lot of people

in a room. and they can write a book and worse call it it anonymous. and who is it. it was found out who he was a long time later and he got a lot of publicity off that one. he is like a blow promoter. i think it's a very important case and i think he is guilty of treason if you want to know the truth. but we'll find out. i'm assuming we're recommending this to the department of justice? >> yes, sir. okay. good. terrible guy. >> similarly sir. christopher crab k. subban the the former head of scia. >> this is another this is a presidential memorandum that you just signed it addresses access

to government existing c learances that he might have and further instructs other aspects of the government to investigate the malign act he participated while he was still head of cisa. >> i am sure i met him and he came out after the election. which wags a was a rigged elec. we did phenomenally in that election. look at what happened to our country. open bortders borders and millf people coming into our country. ukraine would never have happened. afghanistan the way they with withdrew. so many killed. hundreds of people kiltd killed never mentioned i mention it 42 or 43 people so badly injured the legs and the arms blown off

and the face, and this is all because of an incompetent group of people that preceded us. and that would have never happened. and this guy crabs was saying, oh, the election was -- well e it's , it's been proven when you look at how it was not great. when you look at the law firms signing giving us hundreds of millions of dollars. it was prove proven in so manys and different forms by the legislatures not approving to the 51 intelligence agents that worked in all of the different scamming operations it was a very corrupt election. they used to covid to cheat. disblrnlgtd and and we're going to find out about this guy too. he said this is the most secure election of the history of our country. this was a disaster. and frankly we should go to

paper ballots and same day v oting and voter id. and one other thing you should get a certificate that says you are a citizen of our country. you get a citizen, a piece of paper you are sit citizen befu can vote. you want voter id and paper ballots. and you want same day voting. they decide to fix the air conditioning. we'll move all of these boxes and we'll bring them back in a few days. and then they don't bring back the boxes. we have to have safer election and bortders borders and we hae a free press. we don't have a free press, beach we have a dishonorable press. this was a disgraceful election and this guy sat back and said, like i'm a member, like he was a

republican or something. and almost from the beginning. he tried to make the case that this election was a safe election. i think he said this was the safest election that we ever h ad. and every day we read in the papers about more and more fraud that was discovered and he was the fraud and he is a disgrace. and if he wasn't he was a bad guy. this is another one i have no idea who he is. i'm sure he was in the room at some point like you all are in the room. i have no idea who he was. thank you very much. those last two are very important for the country? >> thank you, sir. lastly we have three prok low proclamation. the first of these is national prisoner of wawr recognition day.

war recognition day. this recognizes former prisesser form former prisoners of war. it's on behalf of veterans and homeless veterans and others that have suffered that way and it's a priority that veterans and homeless veterans are cared for properly. >> if they find out who wras using that auto pen. i am against auto pens and i think they are not a good thing. especially when you are talking about documents we are signing today if he can't sign he shouldn't be president's. i think that should be tested. it's another one. and you may think about it.

because how cab a can a man, de really know that when they gave all false information on the counsel the whole select committee of political lunatics they destroyed the information >> they went for a year and a half almost two years screaming and ranting and raving democras plus two worse than democrats. you had chaney and crying adam. every time i look at he was crying. the guy was a cryer. you can't do that we're going to find out a lot. i think we're going to find out a lot. these last three or four have been very, very interesting. we'll see what happens. >> sish. >> and >> sir. >> and i don't think the president should use an auto pen

when they are signing important legislation. i think a president should stein fer sign sign and it use an auto pen i'm sure at this point he will say he signed it. they'll tell him what to say. to give pardons to people that destroyed all of the i nformation. if you destroyed information on a civil case. a civil case, not a yirl crimil case they put you in jail for that. they found out that pelosi was in charge of the security of the capital and she admitted her guilt to her daughter who is movie documentary person. i'm sure her daughter is not too happy about that. i'm sure that crazy nancy is not too happy. we found out all of the things. >> we des sphroid all destroyei nformation. >> if i destroyed it i wouldn't be sitting here i would be

sitting somewhere else. >> who >> whoever signed with an auto pen. i am willing will to bet that biden didn't know nick anythint it. you are going to check that out. >> yes e , sir working on it rit now. >> this is a a proclamation. and this is an annual is an ann that there are real victims that are affected and real people that suffer as a result. >> that is very important.

thank you. i want to add we're working hard with democrats and the governor and a lot of transportation. year successful and we have gotten good feedback and they are talking about f35's. it's great piece of property and it's a great location and it's a great state. so i think we're going to come back with a very good answer. we're also working on taking over a beautiful lake called michigan. and that is a tough one. that's a tough one do you want to talk about that. >> sure mr. president. first of all those in favor please say aye. i want

first of all i want to thank you for thinking about michigan. >> it will be critical for michigan economy and security. on the asian carp for years when obama was we couldn't get anyone to do anything about this invasive species that is going to destroy our great lakes. you know how important recreational fishing is to our state. because of your work, year hopeful that we're going to ghets a get a solution and get the barrier built so thank you mr. p resident. >> they are very powerful fis have we work with the army consider corps

so they don't get into lake mish michigan and it's 20% of the world's tbresh fresh waters ine great lakes. it's so so important as a nation that we have pristine waters. >> and i assume that the lakes are interconnected, right? yes. >> and so at some point they are going to be at other lakes. i spoke with the army corps of engineers. they have a method and i thin they i think they no what to do know what to. it's a bipartisan thing. it's an expensive thing, i looked at the numbers and i s aid, well. we have to save lake michigan. these fish eat everything in the way and including the other f ish. are people endangered by the

fish? >> i think they are going to eat all of the fish there and we won't be able to fish anymore rnlg that is . that is a great deal in m ichigan. it's bipartisan but you are the one taking a on these issues. we couldn't get biden to do it. this thing has been delayed for 15 years where we tried to do i t. we started under obama and he wouldn't do anything about it. we appreciate you paying soap soap paying so much attention to this. i spoke to with the governor ad we spoke with your office and we're going to get it done and we're going to all stand there together and cult cut a rib r. i'm glad you brought it up and i

appreciate it. i know you two get along petty well, right? [laughter] >> 70 percent of the time. >> i think you do. good we'll have a something to celebrate soon, i'm pretty sure about that. thank you. thank you gretchen very much. >> do you have any questions? >> mr. president where does the tik tok deal assistant? >> i would say right now china is not exact exactly thrilled t signing it. we have a deal with some good people and some rich companies that would do a great job with it. we'll have to wait and see what will happen with china. >> is it still on the table. >> it's on the table very much. i think china will want to do i t. >> what is the end game with china. how do you think this is all going to be resolved for . >> for years we have been ripped

off and taken advantage of by china and others. but china is a big one. we're making $2 billion a day right now this country with tariffs. and they were making $2 billion a day. we'll be making more now beyou see when you see what happened today. i don't know if it's still t here. i looked an hour ago. we were up 3,000 points. i think that is a record f ellows? >> definitely. >> is that a record? who would think we ro would somewhere have a record like that. we were left a weakened country both economically, financially because of all of the tariffs and all of the other companies just raiding us and ripping us off. at the border where 21 million people were allowed to come in.

and many of those people were criminals. but the people that do this for a living, some of them are very smart and some not smart at all. these guys are not smart but my whole group is smart. and you have done amazing on the border. i read there were nine people and hundreds of thousands two years ago with biden. and we had it down to nine they were all let in for medical reasons they were in bad shape. you have been amazing. that is a big thing. i think it's one of the greatest problems that -- i have never seen anything like it. >> open borders, the whole world was emptied out. prisons from all over the world. from the congo from africa to asia. a lot of south america. it wasn't just south america. pris prisons were emptied out.

el salvador has been amazing what the president has done. he is coming to see me next week and we look forward to that. that has really been amazing. >> mr. president, the eu announced increases in tariffs today. why not treat? >> bad timing for them. that is bad timing. >> they didn't put them in. >> they threatened. but they picked a later date, which our expectation is going to be later still. >> i'm glad they held back. >> you were >> if this was the strategy all along to bring them to the t able. why did you instruct or advise or maybe they did it on their own some 6 of your top aids sad this was not a negotiation and they were going to how hold thl ine. >> a lot of times it's not a negotiation until it happens. i said outside you have to have flexibility to do it right. we brought everybody to the

table it may not be a negotiation, it may not last. things that i ask are maybe not fair to us. look we have been ripped off by everybody for 35 years. this is not a new thing .? and roger penske just is left, he is a great gentlemen and great man. no if the president had the guts to do this. i believe that is right. they should have done this a long time ago. i started it with china i took in hundreds ofs about of billif dollars from china in my first terrorism. we term. we were up 80 percent. something had to be done. >> mr. president, thank you so much which countries would be negotiating first you have a criteria. for example the brazil and the uk don't have a debt to the summit us.

they have a surplus and what is the criteria and would you consider meeting with president che. i like him and i respect him. sure i would meet with him. >> on the other countries, we have japan is here and south korea is here and others are here. and we're trying to see them - - from what i hear it's more than 75. it's 75 plus. >> it's so many. >> everybody wants to make a deal actually. we want to do what is right for the country and what is right for the world. the world is important. it's the world. and i think we're going to make a lot of people very happy. and i think investing in the united states of america will be the greatest investment that anybody has made? have you seen the pharmaceutical deals is that something that you

are still considering moving forward with. >> i will be. we want them coming back. we realized during covid we don't make our drugs or pharmaceuticals in this country. so i realize that. it was a big realization. we had to go to china to get drugs and other places i won't even mention the names. we had to go to other places we don't make it. >> that is because we let them leave. and now if they want to do come back we will put tariffs on the pharmaceutical companies. if . if they want to come back. i'm not going to pay them money like biden with the chip deal. they give billions of dollars and they keep the money they are not going to spend it. the only thing that will bring them back we have a barrier, you have to pay 50 percent or 100 percent or 200 percent and

if they have to pay that they will built here build here. we have the big e chip company in biggest chip company to build one massive plants. and we're going to get them quickly and we're going to get them energy and the electricity and the energy that they need. and it will be approved by a total professional and it will be approved quickly. they mr. will get their zoning quickly. they will have everything done in a matter of months. >> thank you, sir. you have procured a record amount of private sector i nvestments since your election. $7 trillion. you talked about the importance of all that can you talk about how these investments will have a positive impact on familiar plays families who feel they have been left behind and why your order on

coal yesterday it was so important that you are your your ushering back in. we have more than $7 trillion. an el a p pell apple is coming in with 5 billion alone. we have car companies, we have never seen anything like it. maybe in the 50s or something. we have never seen anything like it. we have three plants canceled in mexico. not that we want to hurt mexico. we're for us. that is what my job is. it's not to take care of other countries. i want to help other countries but we have to take care of america first. we have many, many companies that would have never come in we didn't win the election and then put the tariffs on. and they are coming in because when they build in the united states there are no tariffs. you don't have to pay any t ariffs. instead of 30 or 40 or in the

percent or 25 percent it could go higher in some. industries. we have steel mills right now that are raging. the steel industry, if i didn't put the tariffs on steel. china was dumpling dumping maf steel. i saved the steel industry. now it's going to thrive. if you go back to u.s. steel 90 years ago it was incredible. it was a no. 1 company for a long time. we don't want to see it go to japan. we love japan. but us steel is a very specs special company. they hit gold, if you look at t they have such orders for steel now it's incredible. what is going on -- whreas whrg on in our country is incredible with respect to plans.

we lost 90,000 factories since the beginning of nafta. there has never been a worse trade deal we had to cancel t hat. we had to get approval from congress. it was like a disastrous curse. you who to go to congress to get it terminated. and you had people in congress that didn't want to do it because they had other reasons, maybe bad reasons, mostly not there any more, those people. but it's amazing what is up. i appreciate that question. it's incredible. i don't think we have ever seen anything like it. 7 $7 trillion and it's more than that. there is more than that because there are places we didn't know. i didn't look at the biden numbers and you could go a whole year. everyone was leaving. they weren't coming in they were leaving. that means jobs were leaving.

we're not playing games. we're going to make this country greater than before. thank you for that question. >> mr. president it seems like absolutely. >> thanks. for the past few days we have heard from this administration, no pause. did this idea of doing a pause did that come about this m orning. can you tell us what came into consideration for you and your advisers. >> over the last few days i have been thinking about it. i have been dealing with scott and howard and other people that have very professional. i think it came together early this morning. fairly early this morning. i just wrote it up we didn't have access to lawyers, we wrote it up from our hearts, right? it was written from the heart. and i think it was rel well wrn too. it was written as something that wags very was very positive for the world

and for us. we don't need to hurt conditions that don't need to hurt rnlts they all want to negotiate, the only problem is you can only do so many at a time we want to get it right. we want to take care of them but we have to take care of our country. this is something that we have been talking about for a period of time and we decided to pull the trigger. and we did it today and we're happy about it. i didn't know it would have that kind of an impact. the biggest increase in the history of the stock market. that is pretty good. if you keep going it will be back to where it was four weeks ago. it was a sick market four weeks ago. it was only a question of time. >> i don't blame the tariffs. i think it magnified what was happening. it was sick. biden allowed these people to get away with murder. biden allowed china to take advantage to us.

we had a trillion dollar deficit with china. that was only going to be a matter of time. i think the tariffs brought it out faster and they magnified the problem. but i think that this was a problem that was far beyond tariffs. this was a systemic problem and we're going to cure that problem and maybe to a lark lark large have. >> i see that china has made serious missteps in these negotiations and you may have goaded them into a tough position here. i'm wondering, are you in a way in a p utting together a coalition? >> china is very capable. i don't brame blame china for t happened. i believe the people besitting

silting sitting behind the claire chair for bew pitd stupid and incompetent and it should have been done years ago. not only biden, but obama. this started with the world trade organization which was owned by china, owned and paid for by china they didn't have to do anything. they considered them a nation that was undeveloped. they said they were a developing nation too. look at our inner cities and look at what has happened. we're starting from ground zero there. we're a developing nation too i know a lot of people take heat for me saying this. i blame the people sitting at this desk more than i blame china is that. if china can get away with what they got away with. taking hundreds of industrial

trillions of dollars out of your pocket. how did you get to be president and be stupid. they allowed this to happen. with japan and many other countries that took advantage of us. we had deficits with almost every country. i used to read these things. the first term i would read them and i would read the greemghts agreements and say, how could anybody agree to this stuff. they were rough and they were tough and they were smart. and you can blame them. but i blamed the people that allowed them to do it. if you could read first great and you could -- grade and you could read these greemghts agreementd say these are terrible deals. maybe it's people that didn't care. maybe it's people that weren't

courageous but maybe it was people that were corrupt but i blame those people more than anybody else. >> mr. president you have been specific you would like eu to purchase u.s. energy. is there something specific you would like china to do >> you will be hearing about that. there are a lot of things i would like china to do, not you. >> you said the other day that they if they do not agree to a potential nuclear deal it would be dangerous for them. what did you mean? you did mean military action if they don't agree. >> if necessary, absolutely. >> and. >> do you have a deadline for those talks? >> you are talking about with iran. >> yes. >> i do disblo do you see do y >> do you see this as a start? >> it's a start. we don't have much time we won't

let them have a nuclear weapon. i want them to drive thrive. i want iran to be great. the only thing they can't have is a nuclear weapon. they understand that. the people are so incredible and so smart, they are smart people they are in a rough situation and rough regime. and they understand and the leaders understand. and i'm not asking for much. i just don't -- they can't have a nuclear weapon. and i have said that. and i was a little bit surprised when the election was rigged, i figured get their weather weap. they were broke. they had to money because of the sanctions. nobody could buy oil. we did it to venezuela recently and we'll do it to other countries if we have to. i want to see russia and ukraine to make a deal. >> they have to make a deal when

schools get blown up and bad things happen like i'm healthcare healthcare hearing about we have to make a deal with them iran, israel will be slostled involved in that. nobody lead us. we do what we want to do. >> when would the talks be could conclude before you do mill dri military action i can't be >> i can't be spes specific. >> i would say when they are not going along well. >> along the u.s. troops stationed in iraq. do you have any blanks plans te the number of mill military ine urope. we pay for military in europe we don't get reimbursed for much.

south korea too. it's unrelated to trade but we'll make it part of it. it makes sense. it would be nice to wrap it up in one package for open country. these are great law firms, and the way we'll spend the money from the law firms in terms of their legal time. if they will do it. using these great law firms to represent us with regard to the many countries that we deal with we have good lawyers representing us. >> and thootion these are conso be best in the world. they just went off a little bit. >> mr. president, two questions, due have an update on who will be participating or conducting these these conversations on saturday for these direct talks. >> and on china. some imhis economies are sayint

there is 125 percent tariffs. >> are you concerned about escalation yontd beyond the trr with china? >> i'm not concerned. i think the president is a very smart buy did guy and we'll ml for both. we have been treated so badly for so many years and again, we allowed that to happen. i think the president is win of the very one. very smart people of the world and he wouldn't allow that to happen. this country is very powerful. it's far more powerful that people understand. we have weaponry that nobody understand what it is and it's the most powerful than anything in the world has. ings not even close. if that is what you are referring to. maybe it's not. in terms of basic he is escalation.

i think the president is a man who knows exactly what has to be done. he is a very smart man and lostles loves his country. and i know that for a fact. i know him well. i think he will want to get to a deal. and we'll get to get a phone cd we'll be off to the races. it will be a great thing for them and great thing for us and a great thing for the world and humanity. >> do you have plans to meet in saudi arabia? >> at some point i will. it's tough to say we have to get there. in the meantime they are losing 2,500 young people every single week. think of that. 2,500 peak a 2,500 people a week. we have to get there fast. >> would you have to increase tariffs on china more before they come to the table.

>> i can't imagine it. i don't think i will have to do it. we calculated it very carefully. when you hear 100 -- a lot of people charge much more than that. canada charges much more than that to our dairy farmers many, many people charge much more than 100 10015 100 10015 10. >> mr. president would you think some of your critics would like to see the united states go through turmoil because they e your policies. >> you mean leech the tariffs the way they are and just relax right? >> yeah. it will be soon and much more than $2 billion a day. that is not the worse thing that i have heard.

some people say that. but, you know, we look at the other side too. as the united states we have an obligation to look at the other side. we want what is good for everyone it's america first, but we want to make sure that it's a world that can live and live happily and all of that. this is the way i look. there are some people that say, look at where we are now. i have been in worse situations in my life making $2 billion a day. plus plus. thank you. >> the markets are what really changed your mind? >> jt the march markets right , treatmently good. >> thank you, thank you press. thank you. >> looking to contact your mims members of congress.

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